October 11, 2004 - Sentencing Law and Policy

Law students both past and present recall the old aphorism "law is a seamless web" (a phrase we can apparently pin on Frederic William Maitland as explained here). In the context of sentencing reform and the Blakely upheaval, it is quite appropriate to follow the web back to the how we define the scope and reach of the criminal law. ................
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